In re Meade Land & Development Co.

JAMES HUNTER, III, Circuit Judge:

In its petition for rehearing before this court in banc,1 Massey-Ferguson has, inter alia, reiterated the contention made before the panel that the trial court erred in its allocation of peremptory strikes between the parties. Massey-Ferguson points to this court’s decision in Blount v. Plovidba, 567 F.2d 583 (3d Cir. 1977), in which the panel held (Hunter, J., dissenting) that 28 U.S.C. § 1870, the statute providing for jury challenges, does not permit a trial judge to grant more than three peremptory challenges to each party in a single plaintiff-single…